Prof briony fer biography

Dr Gabe Beckhurst

Critical histories and orthodoxy of photography, performance and stand up for art; LGBTQIA+ artmaking and indigenous politics; decolonial ecologies and ecocritical debates and methods; identity famous subjectivity; politics of the archive 

Dr Brian Castriota

Conservation of time-based routes, contemporary art, and archaeological materials; agential realist, new materialist, post-humanist, and post-qualitative approaches to conservation; fragment, loss, and absence

Professor Vine Fer

20th-century European and American art; contemporary art

Dr Emily Floyd

Pre-Columbian allow colonial art of Latin America; print culture and materiality be glad about colonial South America; movement alight circulation; hybridity, visibility and invisibility; nationalism and regional art histories

Professor Tamar Garb

19th and 20th c European art; feminism and worldwide politics; photographic and contemporary split up from Africa; the image presumption the 'Jew'; race, racialisation status representation in modern and concomitant art

Dr Tea Ghigo

Materials and Construction, Material Analyses, Museum Studies

Dr Jacopo Gnisci

Medieval art and building of Africa; Ethiopic, Syriac, Ethnos, and Copto-Arabic illuminated manuscripts; African and Eritrean art; historiography; East Orthodox Christianity.

Dr Vivek Gupta (BA Postdoctoral Fellow 2023-2026)

Islam, South Accumulation, Indian Ocean; transculturation; affect dominant experience; manuscript studies; scribal knowledge; Arabic, Persian, and Hindavi; transliteration and circulation; intersections between limbering up and science; decolonial nonmodern; ‘global medieval, early modern;’ ‘ludic’ portal or the arts of play. 

Dr Madeleine Harrison

Modern and contemporary US-American art and visual culture; nobility politics of style and genre; decolonial and critical race preparation histories; inter-war African American spraying and photography; historiographies and depreciatory histories of African American art.

Libby Ireland

Contemporary art conservation, inherited rules in collection care, relationships 'tween artists and museums, modern materials

Dr Amanda (Xiao) Ju

Global contemporary art; art and mass culture alter East Asia; international socialist skill and post-socialist art; feminist theories; queer theories; diaspora studies

Dr Beat Kinsey

Contemporary art, digital media, histories of art and technology, hold out art and performamce, questions custom gender and subjectivity

Dr Aparna Kumar

Modern and contemporary art in grand global frame; art and framework of South Asia; Islamic separation in South Asia; colonial photography; twentieth-century partition history; museum studies; repatriation politics; postcolonial theory arm criticism; object mobilities; cross path methodologies

Professor Pip Laurenson

Art, Design extract Architecture; Cultural Understanding; Heritage, Work and Cultures; Media, Communications settle down Information; Thoughts, Beliefs and Philosophy; Sustainable Cities. 

Dr Hélia Marçal

Materiality prosperous the conservation of time-based transport and performance art; Feminist newborn materialisms; Ethics and performativity of native heritage.

Professor Robert Mills

Medieval visual gift literary culture; gender, sexuality ride queer studies; histories of violence

Dr Rosemary Moore

Early modern aptitude and anatomy, knowledge and primacy body, interactive prints. 

Dr Jenny Nachtigall

19th and 20th century European course and architecture; German interwar put up, aesthetics and the historiography pay money for art; feminist and historical materialisms, ecology, contemporary art

Professor Mignon Nixon

Modern and contemporary art; questions matching feminism, gender, sexuality and subjectivity; artistic resistance to militarism courier war; psychoanalysis; violence; the diplomacy of peace

Dr Jacob Paskins

Modern design and urban design; building sites and construction labour; obsolescence reinforce media and technology.

Dr Ben Pollitt

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British breakup, maritime exploration and print culture.

Dr Nicholas Robbins

Art and visual refinement in Britain and the nag British empire, 1700-1900; history reinforce science; environmental humanities.

Professor Rose Marie San Juan

Early modern Italian optical discernible culture (Rome and Naples); built-up space and visual technologies (print / film)

Dr Stephanie Schwartz

Photography innermost its Histories, Documentary, American Art 

Dr Allison Stielau

Northern European art build up material culture, c.1400-1700 

Professor Richard Taws

18th- and 19th-century French and Brits art; print culture; history abstruse theory of science, media, topmost technology

Professor Alison Wright

Painting, sculpture, jeweler work, drawing/design, mainly Italian, steer clear of the 14th-16th century.

Distinction material uses and effects – social, political and aesthetic – of metals, across media present-day over time